Floor-scraper.



No. 830,651. PATENTBD SEPT. 11, 190e,y '0. DUDA.,

FLOOR SGRAPER.

APPLICATION FILED HAB. 21, 1906.

Wil/TNESSES fil@ fwd INVENOR ffl/w@ @Mw .weight 11. -At the rear end ofthe .block This invention is a tool or the device. .section .of the same.

` UNITED STATES rATENT OFFICE.

CONSTANTINDUDA, OF CIIICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FLooR-SCRAPER.

y No. 830,651.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 11, 1906.

*' Application ld lamb 21, 1906. Serial No.. 307.199.

To all whom it may concern:

-Be it known that I, CoNsTANTIN DUDA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Imrovements inFloor-Scrapers, of which the ollowing is aspeciication.

device for planing or'scraping down floors or-other uneven'` surfaces, especially by hand.-

The principal features of this device are block provided with a longhandle, a weight,

block. f

the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal Fig. 3 is a front view. Referring articularly to the drawings, 10

and a scraper-blade which is adjustable in the indicates a lock having an raperture 10,

whichisadaptedto. receive a removable there isjahandle 1 2, Which'is attached in'an mclined recess. .or socket' 13 by means of a Vbolt 14; Thailandia izmay beprovided with an ordinar7 plane-gri or the long handle ma be omitte andthe block. itself provided wit the grip for bench or close Work.

The rear end of the scraper-block is mounted upon wheels 15`jat each side. end the .block is 'an inclined or sloping face 16, which receives the scraper bit or blade 17,

held inplace by-a 'lever-plate 18, having a shoulder'lSa., resting u on a cross-rod 19, eX-

, tending between the c eeks 16* at the head 20 is an adjustingA and clampingv screw which bears 'at its foot a ainst the blade and causes the lower end of t c plate 18 to clamp the edge of the blade.

21 is a guide or face piece throu h which the cutting edge of the scraper-bla e passes or At the front projects. This face-piece is attached to the cheeks of the head 16 b means of pivot-pins 21, .so as to allow the ace-piece to rock and follow the contour of the surface which is being scraped omaccount of its being pivoted on its bearings 21a. The face-piece slides uplcn' the work and governs the cut ofthe blade', W

ch may be adjusted as desired by loosenin the clamp. t

the use ofthe device the blockis pulled or vdrawn toward the operator and over the surface of the work by means of the handle,

anl tlhe Lblade scrapes the floor or other work.

' c almend a pivoted face-plate for contact with the Work, and avblade secured at the Jr'ront end of `theblock and projecting through said plate.

- 2. plane con'rprisingK4 a block having a handle projecting at the rear end and wheels upon W weight on the'blo'ck, a face-plate at the front end of: the block, for'contact with the work,

'ch the block is carried at saidend, a

andv aj b lade'secured to the frontend 'of the block and extending throu h said face-plate.

` v3. A plane comprisinga lock mounted on 1 wheels at itsrear end and having projecting/ cheeks'at eachside at its front end, a faceplate ivoted between l,thecheeks at the botpreseme of f 55 1. A plane comprising a block mounted on wheels 'at one end and having atthe other 

